The biological products of snakes may hold potential for diabetics. A better understanding of how the placebo effect manifests would make drug development trials far less expensive. These are just two of the topics that earned 48 researchers the latest competitive grants from Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

It’s really a unique program, when you stop to think about it, though we think it’ll be growing more and more common in the coming years. Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Interfaces in Science grantmaking program seeks out early career scientists working right on the edge of the divide between biomedicine and physics, computer science, engineering, and nanotechnology.